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\section{Atmosphere}  Before delving into calculations, we had to make several key assumptions and determine our desired terraforming conditions.  We approximated assumed  the atmosphere as to be  an isotropic ideal gas. The gas, and chose to fix the terraformed surface temperature at 220 K. Using our 1 bar surface pressure terraforming condition, the ideal gas law, and scale height equation, we calculated surface conditions for TerraMars and compared those values to Mars’s  current atmosphere surface conditions.  We also chose the chemical composition  of Mars our new TerrAtmosphere. Mars’s current atmosphere  is 96\% $CO_2$, CO2,  so drastically changing it would be unrealistic to make  thechemical composition with only  surface materials from Mars is unrealistic. If we vaporize air breathable to humans using  water ice in the poles, what would be vapor alone. Since we are estimating  the minimum amount of energy required to terraform Mars, we decided to fix our TerrAtmosphere goal and calculate the additional mass and energy needed to obtain our desired TerrAtmosphere composition of 70\% C02, 26\% H20 vapor, and 4\% everything else, including nitrogen, oxygen, and argon. This is certainly a large amount of  water vapor needed? vapor, but it would allow for precipitation and potentially better conditions for bringing terrestrial plants to Mars.